But they had not the same openings for error.

On the other hand, there was in most of them a good municipal supply of water, and sewers were laid beneath their streets.
The reason for all this is plain.

These Roman towns, even more than the Greek cities of the Macedonian world, were parts of a greater whole.

They were items in the Roman Empire; their citizens were citizens of Rome.

They had neither the wealth nor the wish to build vast temples or public halls or palaces, such as the Greeks constructed.